Wide-open town : a history of queer San Francisco to 1965 / Nan Alamilla Boyd.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.Description: xii, 321 p., [16] p. of plates : maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0520204158 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780520204157
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.9/0664/0979461 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ76.3.U52 S2633 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : San Francisco was a wide-open town -- Oral history / José Sarria -- Transgender and gay male cultures from the 1890s through the 1960s -- Oral history / Reba Hudson -- Lesbian space, lesbian territory : San Francisco's North Beach district, 1933-1954 -- Oral history / Joe Baron -- Policing queers in the 1940s and 1950s : harassment, prosecution, and the legal defense of gay bars -- Oral history / Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon -- "A queer ladder of social mobility" : San Francisco's homophile movements, 1953-1960 -- Oral history / George Mendenhall -- Queer cooperation and resistance : a gay and lesbian movement comes together in the 1960s -- Conclusion : Marketing a queer San Francisco -- Appendix A. Map of North Beach queer bars and restaurants, 1933-1965 -- Appendix B. List of interviewees -- Notes.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-302) index.

Introduction : San Francisco was a wide-open town -- Oral history / José Sarria -- Transgender and gay male cultures from the 1890s through the 1960s -- Oral history / Reba Hudson -- Lesbian space, lesbian territory : San Francisco's North Beach district, 1933-1954 -- Oral history / Joe Baron -- Policing queers in the 1940s and 1950s : harassment, prosecution, and the legal defense of gay bars -- Oral history / Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon -- "A queer ladder of social mobility" : San Francisco's homophile movements, 1953-1960 -- Oral history / George Mendenhall -- Queer cooperation and resistance : a gay and lesbian movement comes together in the 1960s -- Conclusion : Marketing a queer San Francisco -- Appendix A. Map of North Beach queer bars and restaurants, 1933-1965 -- Appendix B. List of interviewees -- Notes.

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